ReadMe file for replication archive for "Transitional justice and the rule of law: Tainted judges and accountability for Nazi crimes in West Germany," forthcoming in Journal of Politics. Please contact Holger L. Kern (hkern@fsu.edu) and Georg Vanberg (georg.vanberg@duke.edu) with any questions.


This replication archive contains the following files. All analyses were conducted using R 4.2.2 on MacOS.


"Nazi trials replication data.RData"
This RData file contains the dataframe used in all regression analyses.

"Nazi trials replication data population statistics.RData"
This RData file contains the dataframe used to plot population statistics.

"Nazi trials replication data Table of population totals.RData"
This RData file contains the data reported in Table 1. Data are taken from Rottleuthner (2010).



"NB2.R"
Helper function that is source()'d from other files. It runs negative binomial models and computes
appropriate (clustered, MI-adjusted) SEs.

"probit2.R"
Helper function that is source()'d from other files. It runs probit models and computes
appropriate (clustered, MI-adjusted) SEs.




"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE 1.R"
This file contains the code to replicate Table 1 in the article.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE 2 and FIGURES SI-1 through SI-9.R"
This file contains the code to replicate Table 2 in the article and FIGURES 1-9 in the SI.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLES 3 and 4 and FIGURES 1 and 2.R"
This file contains the code to replicate the analyses reported in Tables 3 and 4 and Figures 1 and 2 in the article.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE SI-1.R"
This file contains the code to replicate the analyses reported in Table 1 in the SI.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE SI-2.R"
This file contains the code to replicate the analyses reported in Table 2 in the SI.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE SI-3.R"
This file contains the code to replicate the analyses reported in Table 3 in the SI.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE SI-4.R"
This file contains the code to replicate the analyses reported in Table 4 in the SI.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE SI-5.R"
This file contains the code to replicate the analyses reported in Table 5 in the SI.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE SI-6.R"
This file contains the code to replicate the analyses reported in Table 6 in the SI.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE SI-7.R"
This file contains the code to replicate the analyses reported in Table 7 in the SI.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE SI-8.R"
This file contains the code to replicate the analyses reported in Table 8 in the SI.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE SI-9.R"
This file contains the code to replicate the analyses reported in Table 9 in the SI.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE SI-10.R"
This file contains the code to replicate the analyses reported in Table 10 in the SI.



"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE 1 LOG.R"
This file contains the log file for the R file listed above.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE 2 and FIGURES SI-1 through SI-9 LOG.R"
This file contains the log file for the R file listed above.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLES 3 and 4 and FIGURES 1 and 2 LOG.R"
This file contains the log file for the R file listed above.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE SI-1 LOG.R"
This file contains the log file for the R file listed above.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE SI-2 LOG.R"
This file contains the log file for the R file listed above.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE SI-3 LOG.R"
This file contains the log file for the R file listed above.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE SI-4 LOG.R"
This file contains the log file for the R file listed above.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE SI-5 LOG.R"
This file contains the log file for the R file listed above.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE SI-6 LOG.R"
This file contains the log file for the R file listed above.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE SI-7 LOG.R"
This file contains the log file for the R file listed above.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE SI-8 LOG.R"
This file contains the log file for the R file listed above.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE SI-9 LOG.R"
This file contains the log file for the R file listed above.

"Nazi trials analysis REPLICATION TABLE SI-10 LOG.R"
This file contains the log file for the R file listed above.



"codebook.txt"
This file contains the codebook for all variables used in the analyses.




